Award-winning broadcast journalist Bill Moyers discusses book banning and the harms of censorship in a new video essay commemorating the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week (September 30 – October 6).

This op-ed column by Chris Finan, president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, and Joan Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, appeared in the September 23 edition of Louisville, Kentucky’s The Courier-Journal.

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression announced today that it is postponing an online auction of original children’s art that had been scheduled to run through Banned Books Week (September 30 - October 6).

Individuals, bookstores, and libraries are demonstrating their support for free speech by uploading three-minute videos — either a reading from a challenged book or a description of a local censorship fight — to a special channel on YouTube as part of this month’s 30th anniversary celebration of Banned Books Week.

Trouble often arrives out of a clear blue sky, even during the lazy days of August. For three booksellers, trouble recently arrived in the form of First Amendent emergencies. ABFFE President Chris Finan explains how each dealt with the unexpected.